Definition of "slatter" []

• To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness. (verb)
• To be wasteful. (verb)

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• "“What do those deserve, who deliberately utter falsehoods,” continued the Monk, “who deceive, and slatter young men to their destruction?”"
• "I can't just subject my defence force to open slatter by these criminals."
• "A little girl who was visiting Mr. Storrs said: “It would never do for Mr. Greeley to go to Congress, he would make such a slitter-slatter of the place.”"